ICOMOS, the International Council on Monuments and Sites – a unique, non-governmental, not-for-profit international organisation, committed to furthering the conservation, protection, use and enhancement of the world’s cultural heritage – held it’s 19th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium in Delhi (India), December 2017.

During this event, which gathered over 1000 participants and guests from 113 countries, and saw 65 ICOMOS National Committees represented, a Resolution concerning the “Conservation of the Lake Burley Griffin and Lakeshore Landscape, Australia” (nº 19GA 2017/15) was unanimously approved and adopted.

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The Lake Burley Griffin Guardians were formed at a meeting on 5th February 2015. We are a non-profit community group committed to safeguarding one of Canberra’s greatest treasures, the open space of Lake Burley Griffin and its lakeshore landscape setting.